Tutkijaopettaja Sheraz Ahmed

E-mail: Sheraz.Ahmed@lut.fi

Mobile phone: +358 503226527

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6836-2030 (Go to ORCID profile)

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Uploaded on: 02/03/2021

Current Organisation

Finance and Business Analytics (FBA) (Superior organisation: LUT School of Business and Management)

Biography

Dr. Sheraz Ahmed works as Associate Professor at the School of Business and Management (LBM). He completed his doctoral degree in economics and business administration majoring in financial economics from Hanken School of Economics in 2009. He has served as co-director of master degree program in strategic finance and analytics since 2011. He currently teaches financial theory, valuation, international financial management and empirical research in finance at LBM. He also supervises post-graduate dissertations in finance and analytics. He is an active researcher and publishes within the themes of international finance, asset pricing, corporate governance and earnings management.

Research Interest

Emerging Markets Finance
Asset pricing and market microstructure
Corporate Governance & Ownership
Transparency practices of global listed companies

Teaching Experience

Master level courses:
A220A0200 - International financial management, 6 ECTS
A220A0650 - Financial theory and valuation, 6 ECTS
A220A0400 - Empirical research in finance, 6 ECTS
A220A0600 - Banking and insurance finance, 6 ECTS (co-teacher)
A220A9001 - Master's Thesis, Strategic Finance, 30 ECTS (supervisor)

Bachelor level courses:
A130A3000 - Kauppatieteiden kandidaatintutkielma, 10 ECTS (Bachelor thesis supervisor)

Research Areas

Business, Management and Accounting

Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Publications

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Overinvestment, growth opportunities and firm performance: Evidence from Singapore stock market (2015)
A1 Journal article (refereed), original research
Farooq Sanaullah, Ahmed Sheraz, Saleem Kashif

Corporate Ownership and Control

Value Premium, Interlisting effect and Idiosyncratic volatility: Evidence from Canadian listed firms (2015)
A4 Conference proceedings
Ahmed Sheraz, Khorsand Bardia
22nd Annual Global Finance Conference "China in the Future of Global Finance & Global Economy

Impact of Over/Underinvestment on Corporate Performance: Singapore Stock Market (2014)
A4 Conference proceedings
Sanaullah Farooq, Sheraz Ahmed, Kashif Saleem
Proceedings of 21st Annual Conference of the Multinational Finance Society

Market Integration, Return and Volatility Dynamics: Empirical Evidence from African Stock Markets (2014)
A1 Journal article (refereed), original research
Saleem Kashif, Collan Mikael, Ahmed Sheraz, et al.

International Business Research

Performance determinants of global renewable energy companies (2014)
A4 Conference proceedings
Ahmed Sheraz, Saleem Kashif, Lopez Guillermo-Lopez
Proceedings of the twenty-first annual conference of the multinational finance society

Stock price synchronicity and corporate governance mechanisms: Evidence from an emerging market (2014)
A1 Journal article (refereed), original research
Farooq Omar, Ahmed Sheraz

International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Performance Evaluation

The financial cost of rivalry: A tale of two South-Asia neighbors (2014)
A1 Journal article (refereed), original research
Ahmed Sheraz, Hussain Syed Mujahid

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade

Time-Varying Idiosyncratic Volatility, inter-listing and Value Premium: Evidence from Canadian Market (2014)
A4 Conference proceedings
Ahmed Sheraz, Khorsand Bardia
Proceedings of the Annual Global Finance Conference

Do Governance Reforms Increase Informativeness of Analysts’ Stock Recommendations? Evidence from a developing Market (2013)
A1 Journal article (refereed), original research
Ahmed Sheraz, Farooq Omar

International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics

Measuring quality of reported earnings’ response to corporate governance reforms in Russia (2013)
A1 Journal article (refereed), original research
Ahmed Sheraz

Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies

Other Research Activities

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Liquidity and asset pricing in the French stock market (Supervision experience)

Master of Science (Business Economics) - M.B.Econ. (Education and training)

Master of Science (Economics & Business Administration) (Education and training)

Visiting Researcher (Previous work experience)

Last updated on 2021-02-03 at 04:03